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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738
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I have stood before you all naked here and peeled my skin back revealing underneath confessing to you all my sin. Tell me that it's not enough, I'll rip my veins and flog with them-- I will tell you secrets then, and proudly wave the flag of me I am not serenity-- I'm not even second-best... I am not the antichrist nor am I the chosen one I am not this thing you think prancing clover over stone... I take my hands and offer palms saying, "don't you see it now?" Watch the ribbons of the clouds cross the lines in search of truth licking my own blood in greed. Just like you-- I'm just like YOU-- and my wounds are honest weep... in the center there is calm there we find the tune in key dripping blood to holy grail as if someone might ever look down into a chalice kept by the head of the Baptist next to all the legend told blinded by the glint of gold. for the vessel of the keep and the very life of me does not beg for your applause-- something in me needs a cause and finds it in the death of me... something in me seethes with greed-- evolutionary forge death oh death I can't conceive... begging flesh of have some more looking for the the bits of me playing patterns on the glass twist the tumbler and laugh kaleidoscope and bits of grass splayed across the bottom screen. I have stood before you all naked in my peel of skin red welt rise in center palm as if in beg of "let me in..." dripping blood of once that was-- knowledge that ye know I sin just by virtue of my flesh. Something in me barters life as something in me dies... |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
Inspiring, thank you. |
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dreambuilder Member
since 2003-03-23
Posts 319caddyshack |
peppered with darkness salted with moxie seasoned to a gourmet meal of which I enjoyed somethings arent what they seem they're better |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
Just like you I am JUST like you For I too feel the need of peel But in so doing I fear I create I create, I fear A thing this is and is not me Yet leave it here for all to see just what it is that lives within That which no one quite believes Good lord woman you have written |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Yes...what wranx said. hugs, Chris |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
"I have stood before you all naked in my peel of skin" and you are beautiful! |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
 damn |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
needs a good bumping... |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Thanks for bumping it up Ed..I missed it somehow... Ser... you know i know.... Who cast first the stone to break the glass of me as I, on broken pieces offered have slashed the places too tender for normal bleed... I asked not to be but that I am just like you human Not but blood and bone flesh and will tell me now are those in your hands stone still? |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
knowledge that ye know I sin just by virtue of my flesh. Karen, I know!!!!  [This message has been edited by garysgirl (06-17-2003 03:21 PM).] |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
yes... what Martie & Ron said with a moth hug thrown in.  |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
"Just like you-- I'm just like YOU-- and my wounds are honest weep..." Yes, you are..... and having read this, I have serenity, Serenity..... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Ceinwyn Member Elite
since 2000-07-09
Posts 2175VA |
 If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried. [This message has been edited by Ceinwyn (06-17-2003 05:18 PM).] |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
I'm speechless.... and you... you're beautiful. |
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brian sites Senior Member
since 2002-06-25
Posts 1475usa |
there is so much I want to say to this I dont even know where to begin... you do this better than anyone... peel yourself and you peel others laying bare the nerves to be scrawled raw and yes I also know the feeling of flagellating myself far more thoroughly than anyone else could do to me... that does create the situation of self-attacking yet very defensive personality and as for yet again trying to open blind eyes..... well...you can lay bare all the skin you want Karen...but some people will only see that you are dripping blood on their rug that is just how it is... you are the wren's bone delicate, fragile but strong enough to make the flight possible be above it.... look down at a bigger picture I smile..because I know you have on some level but when it continually leaps up to snag your wings and drag you back down it can get to you.....yes ok.... this is in your Jeremiad class.... and you know what that does to me incredible you...... a hard hug for you B |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Thanx Cpat, I was going to write that.... Never mind.... Ser.. powerful penning dear heart. very powerful indeed... |
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Duncan Member Ascendant
since 2001-08-07
Posts 5455 |
'something in me needs a cause and finds it in the death of me...' I've never thought of it in exactly that way...but I understand it perfectly. You know where I am, right? It was your day to watch me...  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I wanted to say thank you for all of your generous comments. And? A friend e mailed me, asking what the title meant, and it actually means something only to me. When I was a kid, we would play "pretend" using the long blades of the St. Augustine grass as our $$--so it was just a personal reference to a wish for a less complicated time. A Halcyon days kinda thing. But thanks all for reading. You are all such special people. |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
WOW! Very Speachless! ARCTIC WIND |
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